When Vella Givens learns three orphaned siblings are hiding in town and stealing to survive, she knows she must find and protect them from men who want to separate and adopt them out for cash. But she fears Marshal Baird McKiernan and his lawman's ethics would force him to do the legal thing and return the children to the orphan train they escaped from. Unable to follow his dream of becoming a doctor, Baird wants to help—if only he can convince Vella to trust him to do what’s right for the children. The orphans, Dewey, Jess and Nedra, have plans of their own. They want parents who will take all three of them, and Baird and Vella are the couple they choose. They’ll do anything they can to help them fall in love.